Law Bureau in Chapei on Monday, and were received by the chief adjutant, Gen. Ching.
After assuring him that they had! decided to observe the Japanese, mill strike settlement and order the workers to return to work, the question of the attack on the Union was brought up. Gen, Ching informed the delegate: the] authorities were making exhaustive inquiries into the matter and that, '8s soon as the parties responsible had been found, severe measures! would be taken against them. As regards a certain man named Wong, who was alleged to have taken part in the affair and who is now in custody, the Chief Adjutant said] imply engaged by another man named Hsu Nyoh-ling to assist, for which he was paid $20. With reference to registration of the General Labour Union with the authorities, Gen. Ching said that! certain amendments woul have to be made in the regulations before its registration could be authorized.
In the course of an interview with the Kuo Wen News Agency, a leader of the Labour Union said that, since the raid Inst Satu: thing had now been normal. He mentioned that trouble had been brewing for a long time, as imperialist foreigners had been trying' to stir up trouble ever since the strike started. They (the foreigners), he said, had employed large numbers of loafers and paid the bad elements of the labourers! to raid the Union.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.